Data Centre Design & Solutions

A data centre is a facility designed to house computer systems & associated components such as telecommunications & storage systems.

It generally includes redundant or backup power supplies, redundant data communication connections, environmental control (i.e. air conditioning & fire suppression) & security devices. All of these systems ensure 99.99% uptime, 24/7/365 days a year.

With our modern day requirements IT operations are a critical aspect of most organisations. One of the main concerns is business downtime. If a system becomes unavailable, company operations may be affected or even completely stopped. It is imperative to provide reliable infrastructure for IT operations in order to minimize any chance of downtime.

'Green IT' and the understanding of 'Carbon Footprints' are terms fast becoming critical in the design of data centres as is 'Energy Efficiency'. Electricity usage costs have become an increasing fraction of the total cost of ownership (TCO) for data centres. It is possible to dramatically reduce the electrical consumption of typical data centres through appropriate design of the network-critical physical infrastructure and through the design of the IT architecture. SCS, during the design phase of the data centre, will explain how to quantify the electricity savings and will provide examples of methods that can greatly reduce electrical power consumption.

SCS will provide the consultancy, design and build services required to deliver your data centre project within budget and on time.

Typical Components To Data Centre

• 2 Hour Fire Rated / Contained Room / Environment
• Fire Detection and Suppression System
• Raised Floor (Cable Access / Cooling )
• False Ceiling (Cable Access)
• Fibre Optic and Structured Cabling Networks
• Access Control (Tagged / Keypad / Biometrics)
• Cooling Systems (Down Blow / In Row)
• Un-Interruptible Power Supply (UPS)
• Emergency Lighting
• Generator to supply UPS during Power Outages
• Voltage Regulation (African Environments)
• Cabinets for Switches and Patch Panels
• Cabinets for Servers and Critical systems.
• Steel Cages / Vaults for Hosting Environments
• Monitoring and Surveillance Systems

SCS enjoys Gold Partner Status with industry specialists such as APC and Rittal, and receives constant product and solution updates and staff training. This also ensures that SCS is able to ìpass-onî the discounts it enjoys via these partnerships to you, the customer.

Racking Solutions are made up of the following components to make a complete system:

• Rack
• Power Distribution
• Cooling
• Security
• Monitoring and Remote Management

A combination of all of these will ensure superior IT Performance. These solutions bring forward a new way of thinking and doing when it comes to high availability and energy efficient data centres.

Bringing Air Conditioning Closer to your Computer Equipment

The 'In-Row' cooling air conditioning system family is designed for installation in a row of cabinets to maximize sensible cooling and increase efficiency. The units capture heat directly from the hot aisle (back of a server cabinet, where the bulk of the heat is generated) and distributes cool air to the front of the cabinets ensuring that equipment temperatures are constantly held at set point conditions. Models are available in air-cooled and water-cooled versions.

They are modular and scalable, which means it is easy to add on in the future should the requirement be there.

All systems are intelligent and monitor themselves for any failures, with built in redundancy to compensate for these failures until a technician can be on site to repair the fault at hand. It is precisely these new concepts and technologies that assist SCS to provide energy efficient data centres and ensure electricity cost savings.